On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:41:28AM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 1/22/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
It's the very first comment, by the person who WONTFIXed it (i.e., Brion, who as you may recall is the lead developer): "Redirects are meant to be a transparent part of the user interface. Behaving just like other links is desired behavior, not a bug."
"Transparent" is ambiguous here. Normally in these contexts, transparent means "the user can see exactly what is going on". Whereas Brion apparently meant "invisible", in the sense that "transparent" glass is kind of "invisible".
Semantics aside, being able to distinguish redirects from links to real articles strikes me as useful, and not "undesirable" at all.
I had what I think was most of this argument last fall; you might want to check the archives. :-) It was in the context of URLs and the sub-labels, but still similar.
Cheers, -- jra